Well, the book is Jim's favorite, so I guess at one stage it did make sense. I just don't understand why it was made with so much darkness. I really enjoy some of the emotional complexity of the relationships between characters though...like the moment that Gonzo helps Fozzie across the bridge. Really nice.

As for the Green Fairy reference, I think it was kind-of designed as a "shock moment" for people who know Moulin Rouge who might find it humourous/shocking for the Muppets to make Absenthe-themed-jokes, and/or to have Robin as this character from the movie!

Here's one: The realistic-style dog from KSY. What was the point of that?

Yeah, it wasn't so much the character itself that was annoying, as the fact that her voice and personality didn't match her body-shape and Dog-ness at all. It would have been refreshing, otherwise, to have a new female member of the Muppet cast. I wonder if she was designed to kinda bridge the gap between animals, and Muppets, and with it being a prequel perhaps this was alluding to a mutation angle (X-Menish?) that cause the rise of Muppets in the real world...but they never went anything like that far in detail, so if that was the point...it kinda failed.

I think they could've made that movie much better. Maybe Janice as Dorothy? That would be too much of a "risk to people who don't know character like her." Ashanti was not a good choice IMO.

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They obviously needed a human to fit that role, but they could've gotten anyone other than Ashanti and made it a million times better. Not that Ashanti's acting ruined the movie, but that since she's an R&B singer, they revolve half the movie around singing R&B esque songs, even to the point of Dorothy not only wanting to go home, but also becoming a famous singer.

That is my biggest problem. The fact that the dog looks real. Make a fun, dog puppet and add that voice and personality and we'll call it a day. But once it looks real, adding a voice just makes it all so fake.

I have to agree. Why was MOz Made, especially when we had several better scripts and better ideas for telefilms than yet another retelling of a story that's been retold. Say what you will about MFS, at least it took the Muppets out of a storybook plot. MOz brought them back, without a charming script by Jerry Juhl.

Heh... that was the best part of the movie. I wish he directed it. It would have been much lighter.

They obviously needed a human to fit that role, but they could've gotten anyone other than Ashanti and made it a million times better. Not that Ashanti's acting ruined the movie, but that since she's an R&B singer, they revolve half the movie around singing R&B esque songs, even to the point of Dorothy not only wanting to go home, but also becoming a famous singer.

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UGH! And how the thing completely ties into American Idol? That explains Fox's mysterious production in the credits. It quite obviously was made to air on Fox, and they wanted the same idiotic programming cross promotions as VMX did. But then Disney bought them out, and they rushed the darn thing... I mean, they didn't need to make a WOZ Muppet project (as TMM had parallels to it anyway...Rainbow Connection and all that), but they certainly didn't need to make it all about being an R&B star.